Check-book.



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Application mm 31mg.- 21. 1899.

No Model".

ien PATENT OFFICE.

VILIJIAM T. 'PO\\ERS, OF SYRACUSE, NEW lYORK'.

CHECK-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming' part Gf Letters Patent N O. 647,704, dated April 17, 1900.

Application filed July 21, 1899i Serial No. 724,611. ".No model.)

-e it known that I, WILLIAM T. POWERS, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Check-Books, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in the construction and manufacture of checkbooks.

My object is to so arrange the check and stub with respect to the binding or cover as te make it more convenient than the ordinary check-book for use when it' is desired to draw oft' or copy the memorandum upon the stub.

By my invention is constructed a bool; in which the covers are hinged or bound in for a part of their greatest length or alonga line parallel to the lines of perforations between the checks, the sheet-s being secured together and to the cover along the said line of hinging. In this construction the cheek portion is left free and the stub portion is bound in, so that when the check is removed and the rover thrown back the stub is exposed to View.

The invention consists in the novelconstruction hereinafter first fully described and then specifically' set forth in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the check-book complete open, showing part of the memoranduni-stubs thrown back. Fig. is a transverse section through the stub portion, the cover being raised; and Fig. 3 is a similar view through the check portion.

The check-book comprises a pad of sheets `perforated transversely, as at (l, to forni a binding or Inemoramlum stub fl', which stub is ruled vertically and horizontally and so ar-4 ranged as to provide lines upon which to make memoranda for each check, as shown in Fig. l.

The sheets are also perforated longitudi-.r

nally, as at b, to form the individual ehecksj'is c. The pad may carry any desired number of sheets and is provided with an inclosing cover d. The cover is hinged by stitching or otherwise to the pad along a line parallel to the longitudinal perforations l), as indicated at d', at the upper edges of the stub portion, the upper edges e of the check portion being preferably left free. It will thus be seen that having made a memorandum with regard to the check and filled it out-the check is torn oli' through the perforations, and when it is desired to copy the memoranda upon the stubs the cover is thrown back, as in Fig. 1, and the stubs successively turned over onto the cover, where they remain of their own weight.

llaving thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A check-book comprising a pad of sheets each perforated transversely to forni a binding-stub, and longitudinally to form the individual checks, and a cover hinged to the pad along a line parallel to the longitudinal perforations, said stubs being secured together and to the cover alongsaid line of hinging the check portion of said sheets being left free, substantially as described.

In witnesswhereof I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of July, 1.899.

\\'M. T.' POWRS.

ll'itnesses:

M. M. No'r'i, liowann l. DnNIso-N. 

